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Monday, December 6, 2010

Changing Blogger Title Link

In my previous post, I have showed you how you can change your Blogger header image's link. But in order to do this, you'd have to disable your blog's title. Some might not like the idea of having their titles removed just to make way for some links in their headers. Well, you don't have to remove your title to include a link in your header, as you already have your title linked. When you are not on your main page, your blog's title will be automatically linked, to itself of course. In this tutorial, you will learn how you can change this link to point elsewhere. And best of all, this link will appear on the main page itself. I have also added a quick step on how you can get your description linked as well.

Step 1:

If you're using the old Blogger interface:Go to Dashboard - Design - Edit HTML - Back Up (Download Full Template) - Check the box next to 'Expand Widget Templates'
If you're using the new Blogger interface:Go to Dashboard - Template - Backup/Restore - Download Full Template - Close - Edit HTML - Proceed - Check the box next to 'Expand Widget Templates'

Find for the following line:

<b:include name='title'/>

There will be three places where you'd see this line. You have to make adjustments to all three of them.

I just wanted to add a link to my blog description rather than my blog title, so tried step 3 without doing the rest. It totally failed on me! And when I tried to download my saved template it crashed on me as well, so almost lost my blog in the end! It's back to normal now though.

Maybe you should put a more explicit warning on this page to warn people like me?

Is there a way of just linking the description instead of the title? If so, I'd love to hear how.

@Josh Redman: If it doesn't work, you're totally doing something wrong. Clearly you're jumping between steps here, and you're not following my instructions as it were meant to be.

In step 3, I asked you to 'repeat the same steps'. That means you have to execute step 1 first, in which I asked to back up your template in the very first line. Note that at this point, you've not tried anything suggested in this tutorial yet, so everything should be at its default settings. And if that crashed your machine, something is seriously wrong with your blog.

This tutorial is not dangerous at all, and no warning is needed. Even if something goes bad, I've asked you to backup your template in the very first line, so nothing could go wrong, literally.

And just for the record, it works. Try again and follow the instructions clearly as shown. I'll sum it up for you. Go to Dashboard - Design - Edit HTML - Backup - Check the box next to 'Expand Widget Templates'.

Then find for this:<b:include name='description'/>

Change it to (change the address in the code below as well):<a expr:href='"http://www.southernspeakers.net"' target='_blank'><b:include name='description'/></a>

You have to do this four times as there are four <b:include name='description'/>'s in your template.

And to play safe, I advise you to create a dummy blog and test all your tweaks there first before attempting on the real deal. It's not like it's dangerous to try this tutorial, just to play safe. Good luck this time.

Hey Yoboy, so I tried this out (thanks for putting this up by the way ;D), but it didn't take.

Can I put different address than the blog itself? One that isn't the homepage of that specific blog, but the homepage of the site. The blog (header link) that I'm trying to change is only for archiving, so we don't actually have any posts.

You can view the blog I'm trying to change here: http://www.awardsandcontests.theluvnv.com and I wanted it to go to here: http://www.theluvnv.com

hi there. not sure if you're still accepting questions/comments here, but I do need some help.

I've applied the above and my blog title still doesn't link to where I'd like it to. your steps were very straightforward, so I'm not sure what could have gone wrong. would you please take a quick look at my blog--i would really appreciate it!! www.studiesinstyle.com.

I'm trying to get the blog title (and description) to link the the page that shows all of my posts, not my welcome page. Looking forward to hearing back!

We need to adjust the height of your header bar. Do you have a prefered height that you wanna use for your header?

The code for this is a little complicated but here's the link if you wanna give it a try (just remove the line 24 in Step 3). http://www.southernspeakers.net/2011/10/add-header-in-blogger-dynamic-view.html

The default code in the post above should set your header to 165px. Alternatively, you find this too complicated, just let me know the height that you'd like to use and I'll adjust the code accordingly.

Sorry, Ignore my last comment. I'm pretty sure I've done this exactly. but I still can't get it. I've got four blogs now, which I'm trying to unite as one fairly seamless experience with the main page being jimysloan.blogspot.com. I think it's going well but I just can't get the other three to divert their title hyperlinks back to this one. The blogs in question are http://jimysloanblog.blogspot.cahttp://jimysloanprints.blogspot.ca http://jimysloangallery.blogspot.ca

I think you've given me a hand before and I need some again now. Thanks a lot!